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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
T F H Allen; Joseph A Tainter; T W Hoekstra |
| ISBN: | 023110586X 9780231105866 0231105878 9780231105873 |
| OCLC Number: | 50096845 |
| Description: | xv, 459 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The Nature of the Problem -- A New Global System -- Economics, Society, and Ecology -- Comprehending Sustainability -- Manage Systems, Not Outputs -- Manage Contexts -- Supply What Systems Need -- Let the Ecological System Subsidize Management -- Understand Problem Solving -- Sustainability in a Social Context -- Paying for Sustainability -- Maintaining the Political Context -- The Ecology of Sustainability -- Driven Between Disciplines by Technology -- Prediction in Large Systems -- Standard Practice for Different Reasons -- Social and Biogeophysical Integration -- Complexity, Problem Solving, and Social Sustainability -- Complexity and Social Sustainability: Framework -- Monitoring, Predicting, and Problem Solving -- Complexity and Problem Solving -- Producing Resources -- Resources, Intensification, and Sustainability -- Producing Knowledge -- Summary and Implications for Sustainability -- Complexity and Social Sustainability: Experience -- Collapse of the Western Roman Empire -- Understanding Roman Unsustainability -- The Early Byzantine Recovery -- Collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate -- Development of Modern Europe -- Consequences of European Wars -- Implications for Sustainability -- Some Characteristics of Sustainability -- A Hierarchical Approach to Ecological Sustainability -- The Criteria for Observation and Modeling -- The Organism -- Sustaining the Umwelt -- Habits and Familiar Settings -- Rare and Endangered Umwelts -- Stress and Unmet Umwelts -- The Human Umwelt and Sustainability of Other Species. |
| Series Title: | Complexity in ecological systems series. |
| Responsibility: | T.F.H. Allen, Joseph A. Tainter, Thomas W. Hoekstra. |
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